New Game is Like a Horror Version of Among Us
A sequel to the social deduction FPS Deceit has been announced that trends more toward an Among Us pace of action. Developer World Makers found a significant amount of success with the original Deceit, building an audience well before Among Us found its success in 2020. Now World Makers sees an opportunity to capitalize, creating a sequel inspired both by the successes of Deceit and the expectations social deduction players have from the genre where Among Us reigns supreme.
Deceit was originally released in 2017 and saw an immediate surge of success. The social deduction game places two Infected in a group of Innocent players. Innocent players seek to escape the Game Master's map while Infected hunt down blood bags to trigger a blackout and their murderous terror forms. At its heart, Deceit is a traditional social deduction game, but players are also given guns and are forced to shoot down other players in order to open a vote for their elimination.
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The reveal trailer for Deceit 2 teases a significantly different experience compared to the original game, promoting more social deduction gameplay and careful decisions rather than gunfire-laden action scenes. Each round of Deceit 2 features between 6-9 players, a substantial increase from the first game, with the Innocent once again seeking to escape the map and the Infected trying to stop them.
While Deceit's horror aesthetic remains, gameplay has changed in some notable ways. Instead of collecting blood bags, Infected must seek to complete blood rituals in secret. Doing so will trigger the In-Between, wherein they can kill a single Innocent before having to do another ritual. This should slow down the action, and push
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